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Secondary Exam Results In India Mean An SMS Flood
syrinje writes "The Times of India reported that Indian high-school seniors who took the exams conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education sent more than a Million SMS messages within a 11 hour period to query the result database and receive detailed examination results. In addition making the results available to cellphone users, the CBSE has also published the results online at a dedicated web-site . Since the results were announced on the weekend, students would otherwise have had to wait for Monday to get their results from their schools. A spokesperson for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited , one of the operators involved in setting up the SMS result system estimated that they handled 100,000 messages per hour during the day on Sunday and said that "There was no problem in the network due to the heavy SMS traffic and we were able to give subjectwise marks to the students"."
The thing that's great about Slashdot is the whole anonymous thing. I can be a trolling dick on this site and be completely normal off the site. I'm so different IRL than I am here that you never know who I could really me. You might even know me IRL and not know of my secret little Slashdot life.
With that being said, I work with lots of people IRL. I work in a very public place with lots of public computers. I help people with the computers. The other day I helped an old lady copy a text document from the computer to her floppy disk. Like all technophobes, she proceeded to inform me of how difficult computer concepts are to her, and graciously thanked me for my polite assistance.
She also went off on kind of a rant. She told me she's a social worker, taking care of people with health problems. She told me that the day before she searched the internet for a cheap source of bulk adult diapers so she could provide one of her incontinent clients with a cheaper source. In doing her search though, she ran into a bunch of adult diaper fetish websites. She almost blew up at me as if I'm the source of all the bad things on the internet. "That's sick! That's terrible! I was so disgusted! Why are things like that allowed to exist on the internet?"
Rather than debate people's personal fetish preferences with her (no matter how odd) I just decided to nod my head and smile, like I do often with old people. After that, she proceeded to tell me how much one of the other people who frequents the area annoys her. Though, I have to agree with her on this one. The guy she was talking about always comes in with maxed out volume headphones with the most annoying trendy rap songs, sports a pink backpack, is extremely loudmouthed, and bursts into fits of laughter out of nowhere. Generally, a crazy fuck.
So after about 15 minutes of listening to this old lady tell me everything that's wrong with the internet and the people around us she finally decided to leave. On her way out she said, "And if that weren't bad enough, my therapist recently diagnosed me as bipolar!"
My calm, reserved, collected personality prevented me from saying any of this to her... but WTF?! What a fucking hypocrite! She rants for fifteen minutes about how sick in the head people on the internet are and how crazy that loudmouthed guy with the pink backpack is then she goes and tells me she's bipolar!
Boy I'll tell ya... you see some crazy shit working with a lot of people
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Well, I went to Caltech and I'm an Indian who reads slashdot.
Calcutta Tech.
Praise Shiva!
I really want to be able to send myself SMS' when processes finish, but I don't want to have to subscribe to any service for the privilege.
Why can't all these damn nets be wide open, grr... (Don't answer that, I know the answer, I'm just being whiny.)
The last time I did this ('94/'95) it was with a modem and a dedicated 800-# calling into my cell provider, which I was lucky enough to wangle the use of, for free, by doing the legwork servicing of some of the POP's for a friend who worked at the cell-co, but things have changed a lot since then
*sigh* ah, for the days of UUCP, where men were men and nets weren't unless they were connected to someone else, freely and openly
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
You're picking nits that don't exist with this "nationalistic discrimination" distinction. "Nation" and "race" are not at all dissociated concepts in US society.
Are you adequate?
Sorry I couldn't resist. I'm still hoping to get modded "Informative" by the Slashdot Gods.
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